1. “One candle can light a thousand other candles and still remain lit itself. Be that candle.”
2. “When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.”
3. “Luck is created by the prepared.”
4. “If you don’t give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.”
5. “If you can’t walk away from a negotiation then you aren’t negotiating. You’re just working out the terms of your slavery.”
6. “Replace a complaint thought with one of gratitude or compassion.”
7. “If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.”
8. “If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.”
9. “Stick with the people who love you and don’t spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.”
10. “Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn’t have to be limited by anyone else’s stupidity unless you allow it to be.”
11. “Out of silence comes the greatest creativity. Not when we are rushing and panicking.”
12. “The more grateful you are, the more you attract things to be grateful for.”
13. “There is nobody you need to impress. There is nobody wo is judging you. And there will be nobody who can stop you.”
14. “There’s a saying, “The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again .”
15. “Despair = Suffering – Meaning.”
16. “Excuses are easy lies we tell ourselves to cover up our failures.”
17. “The muse, or the inspiration, does not just up, it requires sweat as an offering.”
18. “Collisions are the fundamental life- giving processes of the universe. ideas are no no different. The best ideas come from collisions between newer and older ideas.”
19. “Study the history of the form you want to master.”
20. “Noticing your reactions to suffering, anger, pain is the key to well-being.”
21. “You can’t help others if you look in the mirror and hate what you see.”
22. “Most people are not truly talented at anything. However most people can be pretty good at something.”
23. “Ultimately, mastery is about connecting the dots of many fields.”
24. “Everything you learn in school can be outsourced to someone who learned it more cheaply or learned it ore recently.”
25. “If you don’t choose yourself, someone else will and the result won’t be pleasant.”
26. “In order to creative you have to be healthy physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.”
27. “Everything that happens in your future is a direct result of what you do today.”
28. “Mastery begins when formal education ends. Find the topic that sets your heart on fire. Then combust.”
29. “With each obstacle, turn it into a moment where you reflect on the bounty that is in your life.”
30. “The only way to create value for yourself is to create value for others.”
